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NORMAL-PRESSURE HYDROCEPHALUS : DIAGNOSIS AND INDICATION FOR SHUNT SURGERY Tadashi Tsuchida 1 , Akimichi Ichikawa 1 , Kohei Okada 1 , Ryuichi Tanaka 1 , Hiroaki Hondo 2 , Yoshiaki Sugiyama 2 , Isamu Ezuka 3 , Akira Otsuka 3 , Naoyuki Hara 4 , Masao Watanabe 4 , Jun Sakurai 5 , Noboru Miyazawa 5 1Department of Neurosurgery, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University 2Department of Neurosurgery, Brain Research Institute,Toyama Prefectural Central Hospital 3Department of Neurosurgery, Brain Research Institute,Nagano Red Cross Hospital 4Department of Neurosurgery, Brain Research Institute, Nagaoka Red Cross Hospital 5Department of Neurosurgery, Brain Research Institute,Takeda General Hospital pp.657-664
Published Date 1981/7/1
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1406204786
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Clinical features and radiological findings were analyzed retrospectively after shunt surgery in 141 patients with"normal pressure"hydrocephalus (NPH). Results were summarized as follows:

1) Shunt surgeries were performed in 6 cases of 8 patients with NPH after cerebral trauma, men-ingitis or multiple infarctions. Three of them showed moderate effects after shunt surgery, but other three patients who had been severely injured and suffered for long time more than 4 months did not show any improvement.

2) One hundred and ten paients of 133 NPH patients following subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) were shunted. Thirty patients of 35 who had ventricular drainage in acute stage of SAH needed shunt surgery subsequently.

3) Remarkable effects were obtained after shunt surgery in 25 cases, moderate effects, in 32 cases and no effects, in 23 cases. In 18 cases shunt surgery was not indicated after clinical and radio-logical evaluation because of the lack of clinical triad and/or inclining to improvement during in-vestigation.

4) Radio-isotope cisternography (RIC) was per-formed in 86 patients. We found ventricular stasis of isotope in 16 cases (73%) of 22 patients who showed no improvements after shunt surgery. RIC was proved to demonstrate the CSF dynamics and disturbance of the CSF absorption, however it did not predict the efficacy of shunt surgery.

5) CT scans were performed in 60 patients. Most of patients whose ventricles were enlarged in slight grade without periventricular lucency (PVL) were found to be necessiated of no shunts subsequently. In patients who showed obvious brain atrophy in CT scans no effects were observed after shunt surgery, however we could not differentiate those who will benefit from shunting by the degree of ventricular dilatation and/or presence of PVL in the CT scans.

6) Sites of ruptured aneurysms did not correlate with improvement after shunt. On the clinical features, the candidates most likely to improve after shunt surgery seem to be the patients in whom, (1) the interval from SAH to shunt surgery is not so long enough 6 months, (2) the age is not so high, (3) severe primary brain damage is not demonstrated in CT scans, and (4) typical clinical symptoms of NPH are present.


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電子版ISSN 2185-405X 印刷版ISSN 0006-8969 医学書院

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